A Few Of Our Best Travel Photos

Herbert and Alana, the King and Queen of beautiful Hollis Farm in Kentucky.

This needs no caption, but David did a fine job setting up these night compositions.

One of the lesser photographed areas of the Eiffel Tower, but beautiful nonetheless.

Off a highway somewhere in Idaho, via J'Non hanging the camera out the window.

I was never so thankful that my bladder made me wake up just before dawn as when camping on Stanley Lake in Idaho.

David's experimental night photo at Stanley Lake, Idaho.

Aaaand, my favorite:

Bavaria in splendid fall colors. I'm glad David didn't heed my warnings about hanging out a window at Neuschwanstein Castle to get this shot.

Why People Keep Having Children

1. Because hormones make men and women irrational, and "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" doesn't only happen when spawning a work of poetry.

2. We think we could do a better job than our parents did and can screw up our kids less than they did.

3. Health care professionals and people with children are given a free pass to talk about bodily functions. To be so in touch with the abject feels very liberating.

4. I've never encountered better puns than those associated with pregnancy and motherhood.

5. Nursing is such a letdown.

6. Women have been keeping the worst bits about pregnancy quiet all these years, to be shared only when someone is already pregnant. Ignorance was bliss.

Zombie Chicken Sighted!

The undead blog of yours truly has been spotted roaming the drafty halls of cyberspace, having been sorely neglected for two years while its erstwhile owner was busy preening her feathers and laying one very large egg. Now that the egg has hatched and the not-so-teeny offspring seems to be prospering, it's high time to bring that zombie chicken blog back to life.

"Paddles!"

"Charging..."

"CLEAR!"

"Do you smell fried chicken?"